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Re: [Qemu-devel] remark about http://www.freeoszoo.org
From: |
Lennert Buytenhek |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] remark about http://www.freeoszoo.org |
Date: |
Sun, 3 Oct 2004 21:21:54 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 01:47:00PM -0400, Karl Magdsick wrote:
> To prevent this, in the dd command, use if=/dev/zero and change the
> count to be the suggested seek value. Do not specify a seek value.
> This will cause dd to take longer to create a disk image, but it will
> zero out the contents of the file, rather than asking the OS to create
> a file from whatever garbage is left on disk.
You think that "dd if=/dev/null of=blah bs=1024k count=1 seek=1024"
creates a file that can have anything else than just zeroes in it,
hm?
Just try it. And then please apologise to the freeoszee people.
--L